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The Actualby Saul BellowISBN 0140274995 (0-14-027499-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Adventures of Augie Marchby Saul BellowISBN 0140189416 (0-14-018941-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Augie March'Book summary:Originally published in 1953, Saul Bellow's modern picaresque tale grandly illustrates twentieth-century man's restless pursuit of an elusive meaning. Augie March, a young man growing up in Chicago during the Great Depression, doesn't understand success on other people's terms. Fleeing to Mexico in search of something to fill his restless soul and soothe his hunger for adventure, Augie latches on to a wild succession of occupations until his journey brings him full circle. Yet beneath Augie's carefree nature lies a reflective person with a strong sense of responsibility to both himself and others, who in the end achieves a success of his own making. A modern-day Columbus, Augie March is a man searching not for land but for self and soul and, ultimately, for his place in the world.[via]More editions of Adventures of Augie March:
Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Templeby Hershel ShanksISBN 0130853631 (0-13-085363-1)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitzby Mordecai RichlerISBN 0140152962 (0-14-015296-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teaching to Raise Self-Reliant Childrenby Wendy MogelISBN 0142196002 (0-14-219600-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Book of Lamentationsby Rosario CastellanosISBN 0141180331 (0-14-118033-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Brothers Ashkenaziby Israel Joshua Singer, I. J. Singer, Irving Howe, Joseph SingerISBN 0140187774 (0-14-018777-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Brush Up Your Bible!by Michael MacroneISBN 0062720201 (0-06-272020-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brush Up Your Bible!'Book summary:The entertaining companion to the Bible by the bestselling author of Brush Up Your Shakespeare. [via]
Collected Storiesby David McDuff, Isaac BabelISBN 0140184627 (0-14-018462-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Company's Comingby Joan Holub, Renee W. AndrianiISBN 0142300624 (0-14-230062-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotenceby Jon D. LevensonISBN 006254845X (0-06-254845-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Crimes of the Cityby Robert RosenbergISBN 0140166866 (0-14-016686-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Crucibleby Arthur Miller, Gerald Clifford WealesISBN 0140247726 (0-14-024772-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crucible'Book summary:Release Date: October 28, 1976. The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft-and then when those accusations multiply to consume the entire village. First produced in 1953, at a time when America was convulsed by a new epidemic of witchhunting, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving but that compels readers to fathom their hearts and consciences in ways that only the greatest theater ever can. "A drama of emotional power and impact" -New York Post [via]
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The Crucible : A Play in Four Actsby Arthur Miller, Richard EyreISBN 014200099X (0-14-200099-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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"A powerful drama." (Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times) [via]More editions of The Crucible : A Play in Four Acts:
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The Crucible : A Screenplayby Arthur MillerISBN 0140259090 (0-14-025909-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Daniel Derondaby George Eliot, Terence CaveISBN 0140434275 (0-14-043427-5)
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Days of Awe : Stories for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippurby Eric A. Kimmel, Erika WeihsISBN 0140502718 (0-14-050271-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Dead Sea Scrollsby J. AllegroISBN 0140134573 (0-14-013457-3)
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Death of a Salesmanby Arthur Miller, Gerald Clifford WealesISBN 0140247734 (0-14-024773-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Death of a Salesman'Book summary:Ever since it was first performed in 1949, death of a salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the american theater. In the person of willy loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, arthur miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously insubstantial. He has given us a figure whose name has become a symbol for a kind of majestic grandiosity-and a play that compresses epic extremems of humor and anguish, promise and loss, between the four walls of an american living room. "by common consent, this is one of the finest dramas in the whole range of the american theater." -brooks atkinson, the new york times "so simple, central, and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it." -time [via]
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Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Death of a Salesman: ISBN 0140285652 (0-14-028565-2)
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The Death of Methuselah and Other Storiesby Isaac Bashevis SingerISBN 0140186980 (0-14-018698-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Devil in Viennaby Doris OrgelISBN 0142402362 (0-14-240236-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Devil's Arithmeticby Jane YolenISBN 0140345353 (0-14-034535-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Devil's Arithmetic, 3.99 Promoby Jane YolenISBN 0142404373 (0-14-240437-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Diamond Treeby Howard SchwartzISBN 0064406954 (0-06-440695-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diamond Tree'Book summary:Notable Children's Books of 1992 (ALA)
Notable 1991 Children's Trade Books in Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
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The Discovery of Heavenby Harry Mulisch, Paul VincentISBN 0140239375 (0-14-023937-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Does God Have a Big Toe?by Marc Gellman, Oscar De MejoISBN 0064404536 (0-06-440453-6)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Does God Have a Big Toe?'Book summary:Before there was anything, there was God, and a few angels, and a huge swirling glob of rocks and water with no place to go. The angels asked God, "Why don't you clean up this mess?"
This collection of short, funny stories is one man's interpretation of how God did just that -- with some very unlikely help.
There was Adam, who decided to number the animals instead of giving them names -- until he lost count. There was Max, a matchmaking angel disguised as a camel. And who could forget the kindly dolphins of the Red Sea or the builders of the spectacularly chaotic Tower of Babel, whose foundation rests in one small girl's question: "Mommy, does God have a big toe?"
Reflecting Mr. Gellman's lifelong love for his subject, this witty collection of midrashim provides a wonderful way to learn about and to share the stories of the Bible. Distinguished artist Oscar de Mejo brings the right blend of reverence and humor with his magnificent oil paintings.
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Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evilby Hannah ArendtISBN 0140187650 (0-14-018765-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eichmann in Jerusalem : A Report on the Banality of Evil'Book summary:While living in Argentina in 1960, Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped and smuggled to Israel where he was put on trial for crimes against humanity. The New Yorker magazine sent Hannah Arendt to cover the trial. While covering the technical aspects of the trial, Arendt also explored the wider themes inherent in the trial, such as the nature of justice, the behavior of the Jewish leadership during the Nazi Régime, and, most controversially, the nature of Evil itself.
Far from being evil incarnate, as the prosecution painted Eichmann, Arendt maintains that he was an average man, a petty bureaucrat interested only in furthering his career, and the evil he did came from the seductive power of the totalitarian state and an unthinking adherence to the Nazi cause. Indeed, Eichmann's only defense during the trial was "I was just following orders."
Arendt's analysis of the seductive nature of evil is a disturbing one. We would like to think that anyone who would perpetrate such horror on the world is different from us, and that such atrocities are rarities in our world. But the history of groups such as the Jews, Kurds, Bosnians, and Native Americans, to name but a few, seems to suggest that such evil is all too commonplace. In revealing Eichmann as the pedestrian little man that he was, Arendt shows us that the veneer of civilization is a thin one indeed. [via]
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The Fixerby Bernard MalamudISBN 0140185151 (0-14-018515-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fixer'Book summary:Amazon.com Review Roy Hobbs, the protagonist of The Natural, makes the mistake of pronouncing aloud his dream: to be the best there ever was. Such hubris, of course, invites divine intervention, but the brilliance of Bernard Malamud's novel is the second chance it offers its hero, elevating him--and his story--into the realm of myth. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review "A brilliant and unusually fine novel." -The New York Times "A preposterously readable story about life." -Time "Malamud [holds a] high and honored place among contemporary American writers." -Washington Post Book World "The finest novel about baseball since Ring Lardner left the scene." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. [via]
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The Forgotten: A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus Novelby Faye KellermanISBN 0066209587 (0-06-620958-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forgotten: A Peter Decker / Rina Lazarus Novel'Book summary:L.A. homicide detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, his Orthodox Jewish wife, return in a new entry in this popular series. Faye Kellerman can be counted on to deliver emotional complexity along with suspense, and in The Forgotten it comes from the relationship between Peter and Jacob, Rina's troubled teenage son. Jacob has a personal connection to the event that sets off this intricately plotted novel, the defacing of Rina's synagogue by one of his classmates. Ernesto Golding can't explain why he vandalized the synagogue, but when he and his therapists are murdered months after the incident, Peter realizes that something the teenager told him when admitting his guilt may hold the key to the killings: Ernesto's belief that his grandfather may have been a Nazi who posed as a Jew to escape to South America after the war. Investigating Ernesto's story gives Rina a strand of the plot to tease out; meanwhile, Peter concentrates on another motive for the therapist murders that involves computer fraud, the College Board exams, and the high cost exacted by parents who pressure their teenagers to succeed.
Kellerman skillfully keeps the dramatic tension going as she pulls all the pieces of her complex plot together. But what makes this novel her best yet is her acutely revealing portrait of Jacob, struggling with the existential angst of adolescence as he attempts to reconcile his devotion to Judaism with the temptations of contemporary life, from drugs to sex. She brilliantly limns his search for identity, intimacy, and independence even as he redefines his relationship to Peter and Rina, in a scenario that resounds with psychological truth. The Forgotten is a terrific addition to the Kellerman oeuvre. While she's always been an exceptional illustrator of the emotional life of the family, this time she writes with an expertise that may owe something to professional insights of her husband, author Jonathan Kellerman, who's also a child psychologist. --Jane Adams [via]
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The Gate Behind the Wall: A Pilgrimage to Jerusalemby Samuel HeilmanISBN 0140084673 (0-14-008467-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Generation Jby Lisa SchiffmanISBN 0062515780 (0-06-251578-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Generation J'Book summary:"I'm not alone. I am part of a generation of fragmented Jews. We're in a kind of limbo. We're suspended between young adulthood and middle age, between Judaism and atheism, between a desire to believe in religion and a personal history of skepticism. Call us a bunch of searchers. Call us post-Holocaust Jews. Call us Generation J."
Generation J is the ambivalent generation: unaffiliated seekers, men and women who have grown up questioning the bounds of organized religion. Lisa Schiffman is one of these seekers, and Generation J chronicles her journey through the contradictory landscape of Jewish identity. Moving from the personal to the universal, from autobiography to anthropology, from laughter to tears, Schiffman shows us the many ways in which one can be religious.
Whether dipping into a ritual bath, getting henna-tattooed with the Star of David, unravelling the mysteries of the kabbalah, or confronting what Jewish tradition has to say about gay marriage, Schiffman reveals the conflicts of meaning and connection common to all who try to chart their own spiritual path. And, through it all, with humor and sensitivity, she confronts the reasons for her own quest and begins to untangle some of the thorniest questions about identity, community, and religion in America today.
This engaging exploration of what it means to be Jewish is every bit as much a fascinating tour of the varieties of contemporary Jewish practice as it is an unusual personal quest. Smart, funny, and provocative, Schiffman brilliantly explores the problems and possibilities facing any spiritual seeker today.
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Grace in the Wilderness : After the Liberation, 1945-1948by Aranka SiegalISBN 0140369678 (0-14-036967-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkahby Susan L. RothISBN 0142407011 (0-14-240701-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah'Book summary:Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah,[via]come light the menorah . . .
Come and join this lovable family of mice at their Hanukkah party! Everyone will enjoy the festival of lights as they sing, dance the hora, play with dreidels, and eat latkes. And the musical score at the end of the book will help youngsters sing the festive song! Susan L. Roth's colorful collages will entice childrenyoung and oldto celebrate this luminous holiday with their entire family.
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The Harper Atlas of the Bibleby James B. PritchardISBN 0061818836 (0-06-181883-6)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Harpercollins Concise Atlas of the Bibleby Harper Collins, James B. PritchardISBN 0062514997 (0-06-251499-7)
Softcover, Harper San Francisco
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The Healer of Shattered Hearts : A Jewish View of Godby David J. WolpeISBN 0140147950 (0-14-014795-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Henderson the Rain Kingby Saul BellowISBN 0140072691 (0-14-007269-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Historical Figure of Jesusby E. P. SandersISBN 0140144994 (0-14-014499-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Historical Figure of Jesus'Book summary:"Provocative and readable...A remarkable achievement."Jaroslav Pelikan, Yale Univ.[via]"No one in our generation is more broadly and deeply prepared than Sanders to tackle the daunting array of problems confronting the historical Jesus. This book will become the standard against which future reconstruction of the historical Jesus of Nazareth will be compared."David Dungan, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville.
"For Professor Sanders, Jesus is a well-authenticated figure about whom we know a surprisingly large amount. He is particularly succesful in unraveling the complex business of New Testament chronology. He then takes us step by step through Jesus' career, pausing to look in detail at the more notable problems, such as the miracles, Jesus' followers, his opponents, his last week in Jerusalem, his trial, execution and the Resurrection. I shall keep this valuable book handy on my shelves, and use its expertise and logic to confute irrtating sceptics." Paul Johnson in the Sunday Telegraph
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A History of the Holocaust: From Ideology to Annihilationby Rita Steinhardt BotwinickISBN 0131773194 (0-13-177319-4)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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History of the Holocust, A:From Ideology to Annihilation: From Ideology to Annihilationsby Rita S. Botwinick, Botwinick RitaISBN 0130112852 (0-13-011285-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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A Hole in the Heart of the World: The Jewish Experience in Eastern Europe after World War IIby Jonathan KaufmanISBN 0140254536 (0-14-025453-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Hooray! It's Passover!by Leslie Kimmelman, John HimmelmanISBN 006443477X (0-06-443477-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Hungry Heartsby Anzia YezierskaISBN 0141180056 (0-14-118005-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hungry Hearts'Book summary:In stories that draw heavily on her own life, Anzia Yezierska (1880-1970) portrays the immigrant's struggle to become a "real" American. Set mostly on New York's Lower East Side, the stories brilliantly evoke crowded streets, shabby tenements, poverty, and ethnic prejudice. These stories are still relevant today, except the ethnic backgrounds are Latino and Asian. [via]
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If This Is a Man and the Truce: And, the Truceby Primo LeviISBN 0140047239 (0-14-004723-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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In Americaby Susan SontagISBN 0099473216 (0-09-947321-6)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Ivanhoeby Walter Scott, Graham TullochISBN 0140436588 (0-14-043658-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ivanhoe'Book summary:In the virulently male world of Ivanhoe, Jews are reviled and persecuted; women are at best political pawns and at worst the victims of rape or misogyny; the weak are subject to the relentless oppression of the master race, the Norman rulers of England; and violence is endemic. And yet there are suggestions of a better world: in the sisterhood of Jewess and Saxon princess, in the redistributive justice of Robin Hood and his band of outlaws, and in the determined attempt of the hero to effect political reconciliation between Saxons and Normans. Although set in 1194, after the return of Richard I of England from the Third Crusade, and although first published in 1820, Ivanhoe has a political modernity which makes it the most remarkable of all Scott's novels. It is also a superb and exciting tale, which culminates in the show trial of Rebecca the Jewess on a charge of sorcery. The text is based on the first edition and is emended by readings from Scott's manuscript and proof-corrections which were lost in the original process of preparing the novel for publication. [via]
Judaismby Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Ninian SmartISBN 013266271X (0-13-266271-X)
Softcover, Prentice Hall
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Judaism: An Introductionby Jacob NeusnerISBN 0141008490 (0-14-100849-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Light the Candlesby Joan Holub, Lynne Woodcock CravathISBN 0140567577 (0-14-056757-7)
Softcover, Puffin
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Lydia, Queen of Palestineby Uri Orlev, Hillel HalkinISBN 0140370897 (0-14-037089-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Marc Chagallby Ernest RaboffISBN 0064460665 (0-06-446066-5)
Softcover, Trophy Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marc Chagall'Book summary:A simple introduction to the twentieth-century Russian painter and several of his works. [via]
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Mazelby Rebecca GoldsteinISBN 0140239057 (0-14-023905-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mazel'Book summary:A novel of three generations of Jewish women begins with Sasha, the matriarch, who has learned of Mazel, the great confounder of order and predictability, from her experiences in pre-war Warsaw and her current life in New York, as she passes this knowledge onto her daughter and granddaughter. Reprint. [via]
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The Metamorphosis and Other Storiesby Franz Kafka, Malcolm PasleyISBN 0140283366 (0-14-028336-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Mind-Body Problemby Rebecca GoldsteinISBN 0140172459 (0-14-017245-9)
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Modern English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionaryby U. WeinreichISBN 0070690383 (0-07-069038-3)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Modern English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary'Book summary:The standard reference guide, with more than 20,000 entries ranging from colloquial to literary Yiddish, plus: a grammar guide, a pronunciation key, and instructions for usage
Dr. Uriel Weinreichs Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary has been praised by both scholars and Yiddish writers for its completeness, its remarkable insight into the meanings of Yiddish words and expressions, and its precise presentation of Yiddish grammar and pronunciation. It is the work of one of this centurys most admired scholars of Yiddish language and culture, and took twenty years to complete.
Comprehensive and reliable, the Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary is the standard reference guide to contemporary Yiddish, an essential volume for the beginner and the expert alike. [via]More editions of Modern English-Yiddish, Yiddish-English Dictionary:
Moments of Reprieveby Primo LeviISBN 0140188959 (0-14-018895-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Never to Forgetby Milton MeltzerISBN 0064461181 (0-06-446118-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Opening to Youby Norman FischerISBN 0142196134 (0-14-219613-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Other Bible: Jewish Pseudepigrapha, Christian Apocrypha, Gnostic Scriptures, Kabbalah, Dead Sea Scrollsby Willis BarnstoneISBN 0062500309 (0-06-250030-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Other Bible: Jewish Pseudepigrapha, Christian Apocrypha, Gnostic Scriptures, Kabbalah, Dead Sea Scrolls'Book summary:Gathered here for the first time in one comprehensive volume are excerpted ancient holy texts from Judeo-Christian traditions that were excluded from the official canon of the Old and New Testaments. The Other Bible is a unique sourcebook of essential selections from Jewish Psudepigrapha, early Kabbalah, Haggadah, Midrash, Christian Apocrypha, and Gnostic scriptures.
The Other Bible provides a rare opportunity to discover the poetic and narrative riches of this long-suppressed literature and experience firsthand its visionary discourses on the nature of God, humanity, the spiritual life, the world around us, and infinite worlds beyond this one. [via]
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Hardcover, Harper & Row - The Other Bible: Jewish Pseudepigrapha, Christian Apocrypha, Gnostic Scriptures, Kabbalah, Dead Sea Scrolls: ISBN 0062500309 (0-06-250030-9)
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The Penguin Book of Jewish Short Storiesby Emanuel LitvinoffISBN 014004728X (0-14-004728-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Promised Landby Werner Sollors, Mary AntinISBN 0140189858 (0-14-018985-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Ravelsteinby Saul BellowISBN 0141001763 (0-14-100176-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ravelstein'Book summary:Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Saul Bellow confined himself to shorter fictions. Not that this old master ever dabbled in minimalism: novellas such as The Actual and The Bellarosa Connection are bursting at the seams with wit, plot, and the intellectual equivalent of high fiber. Still, Bellow's readers wondered if he would ever pull another full-sized novel from his hat. With Ravelstein, the author has done just that--and he proves that even in his ninth decade, he can pin a character to the page more vividly, and more permanently, than just about anybody on the planet.
Character is very much the issue in Ravelstein, whose eponymous subject is a thinly disguised version of Bellow's boon companion, the late Allan Bloom. Like Bloom, Abe Ravelstein has spent much of his career at the University of Chicago, fighting a rearguard action against the creeping boobism and vulgarity of American life. What's more, he's written a surprise bestseller (a ringer, of course, for The Closing of the American Mind), which has made him into a millionaire. And finally, he's dying--has died of AIDS, in fact, six years before the opening of the novel. What we're reading, then, is a faux memoir by his best friend and anointed Boswell, a Bellovian body-double named Chick:
Ravelstein was willing to lay it all out for me. Now why did he bother to tell me such things, this large Jewish man from Dayton, Ohio? Because it very urgently needed to be said. He was HIV-positive, he was dying of complications from it. Weakened, he became the host of an endless list of infections. Still, he insisted on telling me over and over again what love was--the neediness, the awareness of incompleteness, the longing for wholeness, and how the pains of Eros were joined to the most ecstatic pleasures.
Ravelstein is a little thin in the plot department--or more accurately, it has an anti-plot, which consists of Chick's inability to write his memoir. But seldom has a case of writer's block been so supremely productive. The narrator dredges up anecdote after anecdote about his subject, assembling a composite portrait: "In approaching a man like Ravelstein, a piecemeal method is perhaps best." We see this very worldly philosopher teaching, kvetching, eating, drinking, and dying, the last in melancholic increments. His death, and Chick's own brush with what Henry James called "the distinguished thing," give much of the novel a kind of black-crepe coloration. But fortunately, Bellow shares Ravelstein's "Nietzschean view, favorable to comedy and bandstands," and there can't be many eulogies as funny as this one.As always, the author is lavish with physical detail, bringing not only his star but a large gallery of minor players to rude and resounding life ("Rahkmiel was a non-benevolent Santa Claus, a dangerous person, ruddy, with a red-eyed scowl and a face in which the anger muscles were highly developed"). His sympathies are also stretched in some interesting directions by his homosexual protagonist. Bellow hasn't, to be sure, transformed himself into an affirmative-action novelist. But his famously capacious view of human nature has been enriched by this additional wrinkle: "In art you become familiar with due process. You can't simply write people off or send them to hell." A world-class portrait, a piercing intimation of mortality, Ravelstein is truly that other distinguished thing: a great novel. --James Marcus [via]
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Saul Bellow: A Collection of Critical Essaysby Rovit, Earl H., CompISBN 0130748641 (0-13-074864-1)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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Sinai and Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bibleby Jon Douglas LevensonISBN 006254828X (0-06-254828-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sinai and Zion: An Entry into the Jewish Bible'Book summary:A treasury of religious thought and faith--places the symbolic world of the Bible in its original context.
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Speed Dating: The Smarter, Faster Way to Lasting Loveby Yaacov Deyo, Sue DeyoISBN 0066212553 (0-06-621255-3)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Swann's Wayby Marcel ProustISBN 0075536471 (0-07-553647-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Swann's Way'Book summary:Swann's Way begins with one of the most famous incidents in all of literature -- the taste of a madeleine and tea that reawakens the elusive childhood memories of the narrator, Marcel. An image of Charles Swann, a wealthy and fashionable neighbor, precipitates Marcel's recollection of Swann's marriage to Odette de Crecy, a beautiful, manipulative woman far beneath him in social standing, and of the jealousy, aroused by Odette's many affairs with both men and women, that eventually destroys Swarm. Marcel recounts, too, his own initiation into the aesthetic pleasures and sexual intrigues of belle-epoque Paris. The themes introduced in Swann's Way -- the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories -- form the threads that unite all the volumes of Remembrance of Things Past. [via]
The Terrible Secretby Walter LaquerISBN 0140061363 (0-14-006136-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritageby Arthur KoestlerISBN 0091255503 (0-09-125550-3)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Three Livesby Gertrude SteinISBN 0140181849 (0-14-018184-9)
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To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Accountby Saul BellowISBN 0141180757 (0-14-118075-7)
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To the Promised Land: A History of Zionist Thought from Its Origins to the Modern State of Israelby David J. GoldbergISBN 0140125124 (0-14-012512-4)
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The Transformation and Other Storiesby Franz Kafka, Malcolm PasleyISBN 0140184783 (0-14-018478-3)
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A companion volume to The Great Wall of China and Other Short Works, these new translations bring together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. This volume contains his most famous story. The Transformation, more popularly known as Metamorphosis. Other works include Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America; and A Fasting Artist, a collection of stories written towards the end of Kafka's life. There is also a fascinating occasional piece, The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eye-witness account of an air display in 1909. Taken together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.More editions of The Transformation and Other Stories:
Way of the Kabbalahby Ben Shimon HaleviISBN 0091254116 (0-09-125411-6)
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Websters New World Hebrew English English Hebrew Dictionaryby Hayim BaltsanISBN 0139445471 (0-13-944547-1)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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When the Chickens Went on Strikeby Erica Silverman, Matthew TruemanISBN 0142402796 (0-14-240279-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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